David Bowie’s Lazarus musical: song titles revealed

David Bowie‘s off-Broadway musical Lazarus opened last night [December 7, 2015] at the New York Theater Workshop.

The production is a sequel to Walter Tevis’ novel, The Man Who Fell To Earth, which was filmed by Nic Roeg in 1976 starring Bowie.

In this new production, Michael C Hall plays Thomas Newton – the alien played by Bowie in Roeg’s film.

The production contains a number of songs from Bowie’s back catalogue, as well as four new tracks. The title track appears on Bowie’s new album, ★.

There are 18 songs in total. The songs taken from Bowie’s catalogue are:

“It’s No Game (Part 1)”
“This Is Not America”
“The Man Who Sold The World”
“Love Is Lost”
“Changes”
“Where Are We Now?”
“Absolute Beginners”
“Dirty Boys”
“Life On Mars?”
“All The Young Dudes”
“Sound And Vision”
“Always Crashing In The Same Car”
“Valentine’s Day”
“Heroes”

The production is directed by Ivo van Hove and co-written by Bowie and Enda Walsh.

The New York Times called Lazarus “great-sounding, great-looking and mind-numbing” while Rolling Stone described it as a “surrealistic tour de force”.